Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 7, 2018 7:48:27 GMT
Great series. I was disappointed that BBC2 didn't complete the run of tie-in films by showing "Trog" this week. I saw it at the NFT a couple of years ago, introduced by John Waters, and it's great fun. For Doctor Who fans, the plot is incredibly similar to "The Silurians" with Joan Crawford in the Jon Pertwee role. Oddly the two appear to have been made pretty much at the same time so this is just coincidence.
Anyway, here's John Waters' intro to the film followed (3 minutes in) by an interview with the guy who played Trog who talks about working with Joan - she was apparently highly professional and subsequently sent him a Christmas card every year!
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Post by peggysue on Jan 7, 2018 11:49:37 GMT
Fantastic series and excellent acting by both leads. I see numerous awards for both. It would be great to see other stories about stars of the Golden Age in Hollywood
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 7, 2018 18:58:56 GMT
Binged today after only managing to see the first couple of episodes illegally when it was broadcast in the US. Glad I waited to watch a proper copy that did justice to the sets and costumes which were fabulous, along with the performances.
Good job there were no more episodes otherwise I think I might have got emphysema by proxy with all that ciggie smoking!
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 7, 2018 19:06:58 GMT
Apart from brilliant performances from Sarandon and Lange there was the impeccable period detail AND as if that's not enough Jackie Hoffman - no more needs to be said!!! Wonderful stuff!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 7, 2018 19:25:36 GMT
Do you think Joan was covering her upholstery in plastic right up to her death or was that a bit of artistic licence?
I googled Bette’s house and it was indeed that ‘olde english’ dark beams, brass knick-knacks and log fireplace look as depicted in the show.
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Post by n1david on Jan 7, 2018 20:02:01 GMT
I thought this was superb - binged it over this week and got completely absorbed.
What I’m most intrigued about is, given the success of this one, whether the BBC will have the nerve to show Season 2, “Feud: Charles and Diana” which is in production now.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 7, 2018 20:58:27 GMT
Just watched the last 2 episodes. What a wonderful series and quite sad at the end. Fantastic acting from everyone and such detail to the period. Has it been nominated for any awards? Hope it's released on DVD as it's something you could return to again and again.
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Post by WireHangers on Jan 8, 2018 12:53:24 GMT
Just watched the last 2 episodes. What a wonderful series and quite sad at the end. Fantastic acting from everyone and such detail to the period. Has it been nominated for any awards? Hope it's released on DVD as it's something you could return to again and again. It's been nominated for just about every major award. Don't think the show has won many but both leading ladies have been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes as well as a handful of nominations for the Supporting Cast. The show has also been nominated for Best Miniseries for both Golden Globes and Emmys.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 8, 2018 14:12:51 GMT
Even the opening titles were stylish and fab. Reminded me of Hitchcock for some reason.
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Post by tonyloco on Jan 8, 2018 14:15:12 GMT
Fantastic series and excellent acting by both leads. I see numerous awards for both. It would be great to see other stories about stars of the Golden Age in Hollywood Yes, that would be great. In fact, we are already about to see one actually happening in real time as Olivia de Havilland is suing Ryan Murphy about how her own feud with her sister Joan Fontaine was depicted in 'Feud'. Just off the top of my head, I would be interested in series that are as well-made as 'Feud' even about the Hollywood relationships that were happy, like Bogart & Bacall and Tracey & Hepburn. And an accurate and detailed telling of the Mac and Mabel story including all the other players like Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennet's other stars and the various writers of the day. And what about just individual portraits of the great stars of the silent era like the Gish Sisters, Clara Bow, Theda Bara, Gloria Swanson (pace 'Sunset Boulevard'), Eric von Stroheim, Laurel and Hardy, WC Fields... I'm sure some of them would make fascinating mini-series. Or am I just fantasising about old Hollywood...!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 15:20:36 GMT
What I’m most intrigued about is, given the success of this one, whether the BBC will have the nerve to show Season 2, “Feud: Charles and Diana” which is in production now. The Charles and Diana one seems like such a lazy choice. You can see how it's going to go. Yet another chance to sanctify Diana and demonise Charles and Camilla. Yawn.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 22:13:17 GMT
What I’m most intrigued about is, given the success of this one, whether the BBC will have the nerve to show Season 2, “Feud: Charles and Diana” which is in production now. The Charles and Diana one seems like such a lazy choice. You can see how it's going to go. Yet another chance to sanctify Diana and demonise Charles and Camilla. Yawn. If it’s made by the team who did the Bette and Jane series it may receive more balanced treatment. I was so pleased that they didn’t show Joan brandishing coat hangers. I hope they do a series based on Noel and Liam Gallagher - although, that may already have been covered by Star stories.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 15, 2018 8:17:43 GMT
I doubt Ryan Murphy would be interested in remaking the Andrew Morton version. As the years have passed it’s become more apparent that Diana was a bit of a nut job when it came to men. Stalking Will Carling and that surgeon and his family for example. There might have been reasons for her behaviour but all that, plus the plotting to get ahead of Charles in the press abd that whole “queen of hearts *flutter eyelashes*” schlick could make a good story.
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Post by karloscar on Jan 15, 2018 12:08:44 GMT
The main problem with Charles and Diana is that unless they totally change his personality and way of speaking it'll be like watching paint dry. Granted he may be a bit more dynamic away from the cameras, but he's fundamentally dull and boring. So where's the drama?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jan 15, 2018 13:36:17 GMT
The main problem with Charles and Diana is that unless they totally change his personality and way of speaking it'll be like watching paint dry. Granted he may be a bit more dynamic away from the cameras, but he's fundamentally dull and boring. So where's the drama? I doubt the problems with Charles' personality are going to be the main ones that scupper the show! I suspect this is a subject that would attract a certain part of an American audience in a totally alien way to how the UK audience will react. There's a strange obsession in the US about the Royal family, that still is centralised around the 'cult of Diana', that just doesn't exist in the UK now (15-20 years ago perhaps). I'm betting the Feud subject matter will be treated with slightly more reverence by the US media, compared to the near inevitable mauling it will get (possibly justifiably so) from the UK press, but even so, it still has car crash TV written all over it. The concept is interesting, the execution will probably be 'Star Stories' territory, as the previous poster said! No matter how much Ryan Murphy thinks the idea of presenting these two as characters in an epic feud, I just look at how badly the Diana film bombed, as to what the public appetite really is for a story about Diana. Actually, a great follow up (although possibly too similar as it covers similar ground and time period as Bette and Joan) would have been Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine - sisters, rivals, and de Havilland already handily portrayed in the anthology by Catherine Zeta Jones. Epic feud between those two, going back to their early years. If they wanted to go in another direction, non-Hollywood, I would have suggested Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin - Van Gogh apparently cut off his ear in front of Gaugin (although some reports have it that Gaugin did the ear cutting!) - and their totally insane relationship! That has epic feud written all over it!
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Post by n1david on Aug 4, 2018 22:44:28 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 5, 2018 6:54:29 GMT
Boo.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2018 8:37:13 GMT
I doubt Ryan Murphy would be interested in remaking the Andrew Morton version. As the years have passed it’s become more apparent that Diana was a bit of a nut job when it came to men. Stalking Will Carling and that surgeon and his family for example. There might have been reasons for her behaviour but all that, plus the plotting to get ahead of Charles in the press abd that whole “queen of hearts *flutter eyelashes*” schlick could make a good story. Won’t “The Crown” be covering Charles and Di eventually? I can’t imagine anyone else going near it until they’ve done it.
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Post by d'James on Aug 5, 2018 9:40:44 GMT
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